1. Hawthorne STRIVIN' Initiative

   COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE PROGRAM -- CSL continues to offer a comprehensive approach to stability and economic advancement for those living in and around Hawthrone Place Aparmtents in Independnece—from housing and family stability, to career development, financial growth and community development. CSL has served as the hub for the STRIVIN' initiative located in northeast Independence. CLS continues to offer full wrap-around integrated coaching relationships, coordinate connection and referrals within the COMBAT partner system, and seek to work with our neighbors to reduce trauma and crime.

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2. Hope Hangout

   HICKMAN MILLS PREVENTION COALITION -- The project provides supportive services for students at high risk of violence or affected by violence between 12 and 20 years of age and their families who are from the Universal, Selected, and Indicated populations to the Hangout, which is located with the Hickman Mills School District's alternative school. Students are referred to the Hope Hangout by, among others, the school distirct, KCPD South Patrol, Youth Court and Family Court. Hope Hangout will be the host of youth development initiatives such as Youth For Change, LOTUS Project, Sons of Dunia, as well as the re-entry initiative for our most vulnerable youth population that is returning to the community from detention centers or other facilities.

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3. Hope House's Targeted Domestic Violence Program

   HOPE HOUSE, INC. PROGRAM -- The Independence Strivin' Committee has identified the need to increase the community's capacity to ensure the safety and housing stability of survivors of domestic violence. Residents of Hawthorne Place Apartments who have experienced domestic violence need and deserve access to dedicated, full-time staff with training on the issues of domestic violence and trauma. Additionally, research shows that the most successful interventions need to be provided on-site and at the time they are needed to fully address survivors' current safety needs and barriers to housing stability. Hope House's Targeted Domestic Violence Program will address the identified need and bridge the current gap in services that has been identified by the Independence Strivin' Committee. Project staff will provide on-site advocacy and therapy services for residents of Hawthorne Place Apartments who are currently or have previously experienced domestic violence.

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4. Ivanhoe Quadrant Safety Initiati

   IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL -- The Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project (AAN) is a collaborative project between Legal Aid of Western Missouri, seven private law firms and seven urban core neighborhoods in Kansas City. Each law firm "adopts" one of these neighborhoods, and volunteer attorneys provide free civil legal services to low-income residents, neighborhood associations and local non-profits that serve the neighborhoods.

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5. Mattie Rhodes Violence & Intervention

   MATTIE RHODES CENTER -- The ultimate goal of violence prevention work is to stop the cycle of violence before it begins. The Violence Intervention and Prevention Program (VIP) at Mattie Rhodes Center is a comprehensive framework for positive behavior change, based on prevention strategies that address social ecological factors on an individual, relationship, community and societal level. This evidence-based model is guided by the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) four-level social-ecological model (SEM) to better understand violence and potential strategies to prevent it. The SEM allows violence interventionists to address the factors that put people at risk for or protect them from experiencing or perpetrating violence, and to pinpoint prevention approaches that can address these factors at every level.

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6. Northwest Independence STRIVIN' Expansion

   COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE PROGRAM -- CSL is expanding its community development work (with its integrated coaching relationships) into Northwest Independence and Sugar Creek. Long known as the most impoverished and violent part of Indenpendence, the northern portion of Van Horn High School’s catchment area is ripe with possibilities and opportunities—in spite of its challenges. As an expansion of the STRIVIN’ initiative in Hawthorne, CSL will bring community partnerships, long-time programs and new initiatives into these hot spots with a resilient-minded, family stability lens.

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7. Reducing Compound Trauma In Hot Spots

   CENTERS FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAM -- This project brings trauma informed conflict resolution processes and training and restorative justice practices to children, youth and adults in three COMBAT identified hot spots in Jackson County. This project will serve approximately 600 people in schools, neighborhoods, families and courts. Conflict resolution training and processes are a needed aspect of the full-scale intervention COMBAT is creating. These make a direct contribution to violence prevention efforts by successfully promoting the idea that conflicts can be resolved without violence. Since conflict can and sometimes does lead to violence, conflict resolution effectively reduces violence.

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8. Safe Zone

   SISTERS IN CHRIST PROGRAM -- Safe Zone (SZ) is a neighborhood-based hub that offers access to community resources and direct services under one roof. Based on a violence reduction service delivery system, Safe Zone addresses risk factors for primarily socio-economically disadvantaged underserved youth and families living in high violent crime neighborhoods. The project will serve 50 Raytown families with middle school age children and provide innovative, comprehensive culturally-relevant direct services coupled with a robust referral system based in strong collaborative partnerships.

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